It’s coming along! I bought three fairly cheap frames from Amazon this week and they should arrive before too long. Hopefully they’ll fit this cross stitch I’ve been working on. I was hoping to create a few seasonal pieces to hang up in the house. I love decorating for the seasons, but I haven’t really had any items to put up aside from cheaper dollar store purchases that I would then throw out at the end. Holidays are important to me, and I get so excited. I don’t want to ever give that up.
I thought I had been spinning yarn for more than two years, but nope, it has been exactly two years. When I was first getting started I doubted that I’d be able to use anything I made, I was pretty bad. I practiced, a LOT, and eventually got the hang of things. Now I feel confident in my spinning abilities, and I make some beautiful stuff.
If you want to learn how to do something, be it speak a new language, a new hobby, or a new skill – stick with it. Practice it. Make time for it. It doesn’t have to be your entire life, but you WILL slowly get better. It just takes time (something not all of us have a lot of to spare, I know).
Now that I’ve FINALLY received my new ChiaoGoo needles, it was time to take a look at that Silver Bell Sweater that I put in time out back in December. You might remember that I had just finished the 3 needle bind off on the shoulders when I discovered a whole mess of dropped stitches along the collar and along the back of the piece. I have no idea what happened, but it was not something I could recover from, and so into time out it went. I don’t know that my old needles were the issue, but I was constantly fighting with the cord, and it was a lot of NOT FUN.
Now that it’s back on my knitting rotation, I’m glad. I frogged all of the way back to before the neckline started. I re-knit the two front pieces, and the back. I re-did the 3 needle bind off on the shoulders, added the collar, and I’ve started knitting the sleeves. Once those are done, the piece is completed! It’s a relatively quick knit (thanks to using DK yarn and size 11 needles) but because I had so many problems with dropped stitches it has felt a lot longer.
I’m pleased with it, the piece fits, and it’s very comfortable and soft. This yarn is 50% alpaca, 30% silk, 20% tencel, so it’s got a lot of shine and it drapes wonderfully. Hopefully it becomes a nice oversized sweater that I can wear on cold days.
This month gaming has been quiet but steady, even though I didn’t get a lot accomplished.
Incomplete:
I haven’t been playing Wurm Unlimited or Online at all, so of course no progress on Quail Plaza. I do still log in so my places won’t vanish, at least. Upkeep is holding well on Independence, and I’m not worried about anything walking off.
I did not complete any older games in my steam library – but I have been playing some! That’s progress.
Did not complete the next chapter in Divinity with the husband, but we have been playing ARK together on a server with some other Combat Wombat members.
Complete:
I did re-establish where I was at in GW2, and made progress on my legendary precurser! That was a big step. It required 15 days of crafting, which ate up a lot of my time.
June Goals:
Continue with my GW2 legendary work, and look into obtaining the next mount
Try to play a little Divinity Original Sin II with the husband
Earn 1 million gold in World of Warcraft so I can break 10 million on a single server (Alliance).
I started and finished two wash cloths, and have a 3rd one half way done.
I completed two squares in my scrap blanket
Did not complete my TAAT socks – but I am on the heels, so not much longer. I also did not even tough my silver bell sweater. I spent the entire month waiting on new ChiaoGoo needles that never arrived.
Current WIPS:
Scrap blanket
For the horde mitten liners
TAAT January sock club socks
1 wash cloth
June Goals:
Complete TAAT socks (finally)
Two squares on the scrap blanket
Some progress on the silver bell sweater IF my ChiaoGoo needles arrive
It got real warm real fast here, and I have not been feeling the greatest so I haven’t been getting a lot of knitting time in. Tour de Fleece also starts at the end of June, so I expect my knitting will take a back seat to that once it gets going. On the plus side, I’ll have LOTS of spinning pictures to post. One day hopefully those ChiaoGoo needles will arrive. Mail has been very slow.
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